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Ed Rothstein wrote another in the NY Times last November on a similar theme, comparing the new Cal Academy to the Exploratorium.  

He says of the Exploratorium, "Oppenheimer created a palace of experiments, a conceptual playground in which it is impossible not to be engaged, amazed, frustrated or amused. You learn principles but are not told how you must use them. You are given a sense of interconnected phenomena, but are not directed to behave in a certain way. You are forced to think in the middle of play."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Exploratorium&st=cse

> I'm interested in reactions & comments to this NY Times article mentioned in
> latest ASTC Scans.
> 
> The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18SCIENCE.html?sq=museums
> %20special%20section&st=cse&scp=2&adxnnlx=1270036850-sM/C0CWl7aQLLyiRfjunYA&
> pagewanted=all
> 
> 
> Dana
> 

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